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Paul’s Theology in Context: Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul. Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s original audience as startling or unique. By comparing Paul’s teaching to the other religions and philosophies...

In the ancient gentile world into which Paul’s gospel came, the concept of one creator God—that is, a transcendent, personal being, distinct from the cosmos, who had brought the cosmos into existence—was unknown. All ancient peoples for whom we have evidence (with the exception of the Jewish people) worshiped many gods. Moreover, the multiple gods and goddesses of the ancient Greco-Roman world—Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, even the highest
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